The Lakeland University women's basketball team will aim to keep its winning streak going and stay among the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference leaders when it hosts Concordia University Chicago Thursday night at the Moose & Dona Woltzen Gymnasium.
The Muskies will shoot for their ninth straight win when they face the Cougars for the fourth time in just over one calendar year. Lakeland also will look to improve on its 7-1 home mark before embarking on a road-heavy part of the season with six of its following nine contests away from home.
The Muskies (11-2 overall, 7-1 NACC) defeated Alverno on Saturday 65-46 in their last time out. Lakeland scored 45 of its 65 points in the paint or at the free throw line and also stymied its foe defensively, holding Alverno to 29.6% shooting.
Miranda Jacobson and
Megan Will scored 14 points each,
Janai' Farr chipped in 13 points off the bench and
Amanda Majewski added 11 points, six rebounds and five assists.
Concordia Chicago (4-9 overall, 4-6 NACC) plays for the second time in three nights and lost at Concordia Wisconsin 85-55 on Tuesday in its most recent game. The Cougars lost the battle of the NACC's Concordias, shooting 32.3%. Sam Bloom scored 12 points for CUC and Crystal Corr added 11 for CUC.
Lakeland leads the all-time series 11-8, and the teams have split their last 10 meetings. The two met three times last year, with Lakeland winning two of three, including most recently a 77-62 win at home on Feb. 21, 2018 in the NACC Tournament quarterfinals. The two teams also played a pair of overtime games in the regular season, with the Muskies winning at home 90-85 on Feb. 3 and Concordia taking the first meeting at home in River Forest, Ill., by an 87-78 score just over a year ago on Jan. 6, 2018.
The race for the top in the NACC standings also has begun to heat up, with five teams entering the night separated by one loss. Lakeland moved into a tie with Wisconsin Lutheran for first on Saturday as the Warriors were defeated by Benedictine. WLC since moved half a game ahead of the Muskies and Eagles by blowing out MSOE on Tuesday, but the top three are separated by just one-half game, with Concordia Wisconsin just one game behind Lutheran and Aurora also lurking at 6-2, just one game behind the tie for second between Lakeland and Benedictine.
Live audio, video and statistics will be available atÂ
http://www.lakelandmuskies.com/muskieslive, with Andy Damp calling the play-by-play.
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